Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the debate moved into the question period, Fast continued his attack on American foreign policy and his approbation of Soviet intentions, facilely countering the attacks of Scars and the audience. While answering a query about free elections in Poland with an answer about rigged elections in Mississippi, Fast was interrupted by a stir in the rear of the balcony...
...confident-and perhaps overconfident-frame of mind, the Stevenson men had already counted their convention delegates. They decided that they already had enough votes (about 600), including reasonably solid delegations from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona. Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, Oregon, Missouri and Michigan. Already thinking about vice-presidential possibilities, the Stevensonites had also concluded that they did not want Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, who, they felt, was dead weight on the 1952 ticket...
Earnest Effort. The prosecutors for the State of Mississippi-Gerald Chatham, due soon to retire for ill health, and Robert Smith, a Marine Corps hero and former FBI agent-made an earnest and honest effort to build their case at what can be assumed to be great social cost to themselves. They got no help from Tallahatchie's Sheriff H. C. Strider, a cotton planter (1,500 acres), who insisted that Till had been whisked away alive. "This whole thing was rigged," he said...
Sacred Guarantee. Next day Prosecutor Smith in his closing argument told the jury: "You know, gentlemen, we have a Constitution in the U.S. and in Mississippi which guarantees life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to everybody...
...came to the U.S. to teach at Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Among his best-known works: Stockholm's Orpheus Fountain; St. Louis' The Meeting of the Waters, 19 life-sized figures symbolizing the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; The Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Va., 38 figures representing the reunion of friends in the world of the dead...